The Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation in collaboration with 33 upstream oil companies have
donated $30 million to help in the fight against coronavirus.
According to a
statement released on Friday, the intervention which is estimated to be N11
billion would be used to provide medical consumables, deploy logistics and
in-patient support and deliver medical infrastructure.
Mele Kyari, NNPC
group managing director, was reported to have led the industry-wide initiative.
“To address the
increasing demand for medical services, we are immediately providing medical
consumables covering testing kits, medical protective suits and ambulances to
the highly impacted areas across the federation,” the statement read.
“This will be
followed, in the next few days, with the deployment of ventilators, beds and
temporary intensive care facilities across the geopolitical zones of the
federation.”
The companies that
donated to the intervention initiative were listed as:
- The Shell Group of Companies in Nigeria
- The ExxonMobil Group of Companies in
Nigeria
- The Total Group of Companies in Nigeria
- The Chevron Group of Companies in
Nigeria
- The Eni Group of Companies in Nigeria
- Addax Petroleum
- Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production
Limited
- AMNI International Petroleum Development
Company Limited
- Dansaki Petroleum Limited
- Elcrest Exploration and Production
Nigeria Limited
- Eroton Exploration & Production
Company Limited
- Energia Limited
- First Exploration & Petroleum
Development Company Limited
- First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Limited
- Frontier Oil Limited
- Green Energy International Limited
- Lekoil Nigeria Limited
- Midwestern Oil & Gas Company Ltd
- Newcross Exploration &Production
Limited
- Network Exploration & Production
- Niger Delta Petroleum Resource Limited
- Oando Oil Limited
- Oriental Energy Resources Ltd
- Pillar Oil Limited
- Platform Petroleum Limited
- SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company PLC
- Shoreline Natural Resources
- Suntrust Oil Company Nigeria Limited
- Vertex Energy Limited
- Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited
- Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Limited
- Sahara Energy Fields Limited
- Belema Oil Producing Limited
Similar intervention
between NNPC and its downstream partners will be unveiled
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